Tags: David Caswell

Journalism’s purpose is to facilitate understanding. Government also has a sense-making apparatus. Conflict between journalism and the intelligence community has obscured a remarkable range of similarities between them.

Does the traditional news article still make sense as the primary unit of news in the age of the Internet and smartphone? That was the question I asked in my first blog post as an RJI Fellow in July 2015.

Journalism, in different forms, is essential because it is the mechanism by which society informs itself and thereby improves itself through informed action. Structured journalism has the potential to substantially alter that mechanism.

Structured journalism can provide new professional roles for journalists that add unique value in the digital media ecosystem and are fully aligned with the values and norms of traditional newsroom cultures.